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Prehistoric Settlements

Hut circles, enclosures, pounds and reaves - where prehistoric Dartmoor lived and farmed.

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Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Beardown Man

Two Bronze Age hut circles marking the southern edge of a scattered settlement on Conies Down Tor's eastern slopes.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Deadlake Foot

Two small hut circles, 2.5 m and 2 m across, on the edge of the Tavy flood plain at the foot of the Watern Oke slope, the eastern one with a slab-lined doorway facing south-west.

Two hut circles near Foxes Holt
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Foxes Holt

Two stone hut circles up to 8 m across, bisected by a modern field bank, on the lower north-east slopes of Cosdon Hill.

Two hut circles near Ger Tor
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Ger Tor

Two small hut circles, 2.6 m and 2.2 m across inside, on a narrow terrace on a steep west slope above Tavy Cleave, with doorways facing west-south-west and west-north-west.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near North Hessary Tor

Two hut circles on the southern edge of the North Hessary Tor settlement: a small one 2 m across with a west doorway and a peat-covered one 6.2 m across marked by an arc of nine stones.

Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Roos Tor

Two stone hut circles, 4.1 m and 6.2 m across inside, terraced into a slope beside the Great Western Reave.

Two hut circles near Standon Down
Prehistoric Settlements

Two hut circles near Standon Down

Two hut circles, 2 m and 4.2 m across inside, with south-west doorways, on a north-west slope above Tavy Cleave, with a boundary bank running south-south-west.

Crossing wallabrookCrossing wallabrook. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography

“Two ranges of jagged tors swept across the skyline and rose, grey and shadowy, against the purple of the air.”

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